Before the Cross, Today's "Shame" and "Hope"

Posted April 14, 2017 9:02 pm by Editor

Despite the great ongoing interest in the Pope’s traveling Holy Thursday Mass, for Francis himself, the most emotional moment of the year is instead tonight – the Good Friday Via Crucis, and the evocative memory of the candlelit processions of Buenos Aires to which he was taken as a boy.In keeping with the depth of the moment, Papa Bergoglio again closed the Colosseum rites with a personally-written prayer on the modern-day suffering of the innocent, its English translation here….O Christ,left alone and then betrayed by your ownand sold for a fleeting price. O Christ,judged by sinners and taken captive by